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Bluetus

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13. Trump gets richer every day the Strait is shut down
Sun May 3, 2026, 06:53 PM
7 hrs ago

Remember IN January, Trump tried to cut in on Maduro's oil industry. Venezuela has the biggest proven oil reserves in the world. It isn't the highest quality, but it is the highest quantity. More than Saud. More than anybody else, and Trump wanted a piece of that.

Maduro wouldn't come across with a cut for Trump, so Trump took him out. The acting President immediately made a deal with Trump and started putting money for Trump in a Qatari account. This was widely reported, then it just disappeared from the news.

But here's the key piece. Within a week after striking that deal, Trump ordered the Pentagon to start moving assets to the Persian Gulf area. And now that Trump has closed the Strait of Hormuz, Venezuelan oil is in high demand -- the highest in a decade.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/oils-well-venezuelas-crude-exports-hit-highest-since-2018-india-us-and-other-buyers-line-up/articleshow/130714100.cms

There is every reason to believe that Trump is personally getting a cut from every drop of oil that Venezuela sells, with it all being deposited in Trump's offshore bank account. Yet nobody is even asking what is going on here.

Trump doesn't want to open the Strait. He makes more money the longer the Persian Gulf is shut down.

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